Mode Explained

Mode (Latin: modus|link=no meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

MODE (magazine), a defunct U.S. women's fashion magazine
Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty
Mode (video game), a 1996 video game
Mode Records, a record label
Mode Media, a defunct digital media company
Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony
Modern Organization for Dance Evolvement, known as MODE, a 1970s modern dance organisation in New York
Mode, a defunct Indonesian women's magazine

Mode (music), a system of musical tonality involving a type of scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors
- Modus (medieval music)
  - Gregorian mode, a system of modes used in Gregorian chant (as opposed to ancient Greek modes or Byzantine octoechos)
"Mode", a song by PRhyme from the 2015 soundtrack Southpaw: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
The Mode (album), a 1962 album by Sonny Red

MODE (command), a DOS and Windows command line utility for the configuration of devices and the console
Mode (user interface), distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending on the state of the system
- A game mode, a mode used as a game mechanic in video games
- Digital camera modes
- Direct mode, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application
- Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphic library where commands produce direct rendering on the display
Modes (Unix), permissions given to users and groups to access files and folders on Unix hosts

Grammatical mood, also known as mode, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind
- Imperative mood
- Subjunctive mood
Mode (literature), the general category of a literary work, e.g. the pastoral mode
Rhetorical modes, a category of discourse
- Narrative mode, the type of method voice and point of view used to convey a narrative
- Modes of persuasion, oratorical devices

Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma
Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois, United States